Spring Garden Acre is a blog about our family's gardening adventures. We call our place Spring Garden Acre, because we live on Spring Road with about an acre. We're located in zone 6b of south central PA. We grow peaches, berries, vegetables and keep a few chickens for eggs and meat.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Rain Barrel Placement

Today I took the day off with my family to cut an area into the ground below our deck where we'll store rain water for the garden. All the digging took around 3 or 4 hours. I’m sore, but I know my hard working Irish girl shoveled more dirt than I did. The boys certainly did their part too! We'll use the top soil pile for a new potato patch.

Yes, helpers. That's right! All that work is what I need. I can sure use the exercise. The top soil we dug has some clay. Do you know, does adding sand to soil with too much clay help, or is there some other solution?

No we don't get rain everyday at 3:00. We get what amounts to that; only it all comes in a single storm somewhere in the middle of May. BTW, aren't you closer to the equator than you are to me! How's the orange tree holding up in your front yard? Yes, I confess. I'm envious!